Ratfor

Latest revision as of 23:11, 25 May 2019

Ratfor (Rational Fortran) is a programming language that is essentially a mix of C and FORTRAN. It "compiles" to the latter.

[edit] Extensions

Ratfor seems to have been labled with the extensions ".ratfor"^[3] and ".r"^[4].

[edit] Example

This example was taken from the 1980 United States Geological Survey implementation of the Network-Day Tape format^[3]. It has not been tested before inclusion here.

subroutine prbuf(idata)
#
# (A long documentation comment - stripped from the example in the Formats Wiki)
#
integer*2 idata(1) # DATA RECORD - INPUT
# SET TO HOLD 16000 BITS OF TAPE INPUT RECORD
#
  integer*2 i
  integer*2 j
  integer*2 ibuff(80)
#
  do i = 1,25 {
    call getlin(idata, i, ibuff)
    write(6, 10) (ibuff(j), j=1,80)
10    format(1x, 80a1)
 }
#
  return
#
end

[edit] Links

• Linux Ratfor, for Linux
• RATFOR user's guide version 2.0: The manual to AMES Ratfor, a dialect
• Wikipedia:Ratfor

An Internet Archive full-text search for "Ratfor" produces many results.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Ratfor#History, uncited
2. ↑ According to Wikipedia, the book Software tools, by Kernighan, Brian W and Plauger, P. J., 1976, Addison-Wesley; https://archive.org/details/softwaretools00kern; this listing goes on Wikipedia's word that the book actually descibes it, although it can presumably be verified by reading it
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1981/0666/report.pdf, page 42 (45 of PDF)
4. ↑ https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24357